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cruising

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Word definitions for cruising in dictionaries

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Cruising is a social activity that primarily consists of driving a car. Cruising can be an expression of the freedom of possessing a driver's license . Cruising is distinguished from regular driving by the social and recreational nature of the activity, ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The action of the verb ''to cruise''. vb. (present participle of cruise English)

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cruise \Cruise\ (kr[udd]z), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Cruised (kr[udd]zd); p. pr. & vb. n. Cruising .] [D. kruisen to move crosswise or in a zigzag, to cruise, fr. kruis cross, fr. OF. crois, croiz, F. croix, or directly fr. OF. croisier, F. croiser, to cross, ...

Usage examples of cruising.

Their long-range aircraft would be down for needed maintenance, and their submarines, cruising four hundred feet down, could keep their sonar watches in comfort.

The executive officer took them back down to a deep cruising depth while McCafferty began to write up his patrol report.

The carriers had been at sea since the war began, cruising back and forth to avoid the orbiting Soviet ocean-reconnaissance satellites.

As expected, their course was northeast, and they were cruising at about thirty thousand feet.

It was no longer visible, not just because of the jettisoning of the rocket motor but because it was cruising below the radar grass, maybe only forty feet above the water.

And they are, as we speak, cruising at hold positions less than two-hundred kilometers off the American Atlantic coast.

After cruising around the dance floor with Sharon Carson, dancing with Virginia was like dancing with a plywood cutout.

Ralph, who is as much an old hand at purchasing original art as he as at cruising, had advised me in advance that cruise art auctions are seldom a good idea.

Just then Virginia Metz and Sharon Carson came cruising through the lobby bar on their way to the elevators.

She might be dressing the part, but Agent Dulles was no casually cruising tourist.

I had enough bread for months of joyful leisure, for cruising, beachcombing, getting- happily plotzed with good friends, disporting with the trim little jolly sandy-rumped beach kittens, slaying gutsy denizens of the deep blue, and slipping the needle into every phony who happened into my path.

Port Royal was full of ruffians eager to go cruising, the proceedings may often have been less regular.

The question had been brought forward, whether the buccaneers should go cruising in the South Sea, in their prizes, or return, overland, to their ships at Golden Island.

Taboga, Captain Sharp went cruising to an island some miles distant to pick up some straggling drunkards who belonged to his ship.

They beat to windward, cruising, when they found that the Spaniards would not put to sea to fight them.